MSFS20 Placing objects in MSFS by coordinate and rotation...

[Shaun]

I have many models that need to be quickly placed accurately, I see no way using the SDK in MSFS to place my GLTF2 models using the coordinates and rotation information I have for each.

How does one do this?

 

[mamu]

Have you ever opened the .xml created when manually placing objects? It is plain text and
It looks like this

<SceneryObject lat="50.81626919200955" lon="-0.13686521180959" alt="-2.87002083100133" pitch="-0.000294" bank="0.000294" heading="95.340527" altitudeIsAgl="TRUE" snapToGround="FALSE" snapToNormal="FALSE">
        <LibraryObject name="{EEB99E2B-51DC-466E-B6A6-DBECCF855E58}" scale="1.227991"/>
    </SceneryObject>

All you have to do is write a simple script that takes your position data and fille the required fields
I know someone that placed several millions objects using that method

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[degorap]

If you are talking about positioning objects dynamically from a simconnect app, the way is using:

SimConnect_AICreateSimulatedObject

Then you also have others API methods to change its position or remove it from the simulator.

D.

 

[Cheyenne]

Unfortunately, the SDK doesn't provide enough examples for some documentation. In particular, the possible parameter types to pass in GraphParams of the fsVFXSpawnInWorld function of the VFX API.
Indeed, I want to guarantee a spawn on the ground, and I was thinking of passing or forcing "SnapToGround" or "SnapToNormal," but nothing is documented.

Even certain SimVars like "PLANE ALT ABOVE GROUND" or "GROUND ALTITUDE" aren't very usable (or I probably don't know how ).

simvarAgl = fsVarsGetAircraftVarId("PLANE ALT ABOVE GROUND");